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System, U.S. hospitals are expected to report the primary surgical procedure code, along with ICD-9-CM 17.42, to. describe a laparoscopic robotic assisted procedure. The purpose of the ICD-9-CM family of procedure codes, 17.4X, is to gather data on robotic assisted surgical. procedures. It does not influence the MS-DRG assignment. ................
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